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Sound Transit is building a light rail station on Capitol Hill and several artists were commissioned to create three month installations in storefronts prior to construction demolition. The result was “STart on Broadway,” curated by Christian French, which helped to maintain the two-block stretch of Broadway as a destination point for the neighborhood and Seattle at large. I am so glad their work has been documented, as all that’s left at the location on the corner of Broadway and John is a big … …

Join the writers and readers at Capitol Hill Seattle blog for Happy Hour at Poco Room from 5 to 7 pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. According to CHS, Poco has agreed to extend their happy hour a bit for the occassion. Seattle Metropolitan recently declared Poco’s happy hour “the best wine happy hour in town”. Happy hour prices are $2 off each glass and $8 off each bottle (you can even take the bottle home). …

Film maker Stokley Towles discovered that rats in the toilets are no urban myth. The City of Seattle water department has a map of where every reported rat has been spotted entering a home through the sewer up through the toilet in the city of Seattle. Turns out there were 57 just last year! King County offers some handy advice for keeping rats out of our sewer lines and out of our toilets too. …

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed it’s final edition yesterday and become the nation’s largest daily newspaper to move to an entirely digital news product, and we’ll be here too, continuing to write about our beautiful neighborhood of Capitol Hill. …

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